1 Samuel 17:29

Then Dauid sayde, What haue I nowe done? Is there not a cause?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

In Context

28And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake vnto the men, and Eliab was verie angrie with Dauid, and sayde, Why camest thou downe hither? and with whome hast thou left those fewe sheepe in the wildernesse? I knowe thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come downe to see the battell.

30And hee departed from him into the presence of another, and spake of the same maner, and the people answered him according to the former woordes.

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Cross References

Proverbs 15:1A soft answere putteth away wrath: but grieuous wordes stirre vp anger.

1 Corinthians 2:15But hee that is spirituall, discerneth all things: yet he himselfe is iudged of no man.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 17:13-31

David Comes to the Camp of Israel. ( b. c. 1060.) 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. 15 But David went and… Read the whole commentary →

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